Hi,

I have a file that is something like this:

 
2008-10-01 message 1
2008-10-02 message 2
2008-10-03 multi-line message
         message 3 keyword
2008-10-04 message 4
2008-10-05 multi-line
         blah blah
         message 5 keyword junk
2008-10-06 message 6 blah keyword
2008-10-06 this is message 7
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I want to grab all message lines that contain "keyword":

2008-10-03 multi-line message
         message 3 keyword
2008-10-05 multi-line
         blah blah
         message 5 keyword junk
2008-10-06 message 6 blah keyword
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I tried adding the /m and /s modifiers to my regex but I couldn't get it working. I'm a perl newbie, so I must have botched something in my regex.

undef $/;
while ( /^(\d+-\d+-\d+.*?keyword)(?!\d+-\d+)$/smg ) {
      print "$1\n";
}
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Thanks,

Arthur

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